Wise words from wise people. A few wise things I have read recently. Read on, you do not want to learn the hard way.

1.     “To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can” – Arthur Ashe

2.     “In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency” – Unknown

3.     “Tradition is peer pressure from dead people” – Eliot Schrefer

4.     “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master” – Epictetus

5.     “Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.” – Howard Marks speaking about debt/leverage.

To survive, you have to get through the low points, and the more leverage you carry (everything else being equal), the less likely you are to do so.

6.     "All careers are in between being a specialist and a generalist.

A specialist is someone who knows a great deal about a few things and learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

A generalist is someone who knows little bits about a lot of things and learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything." – unknown

7.     “Life is not a problem to be solved. It’s a paradox to experience. You can believe one thing and also believe its opposite.” – Derek Sivers

8.     “Happiness is that feeling you get right before you need more happiness” – Don Draper

9.     “Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.” – James Clear

10.  “Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do— something people who take showers discover on occasion.” – Nassim Taleb

That is it for today, see you next time.

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